Oleg Korneitchouk

@Jason @KareemRifai This is literally the opposite of what was campaigned on The only concept you mastered is bending over for those that have leverage over you

@KareemRifai This might sound crazy, but folks can disagree strongly on important topics and still work together toward a common goal In fact, the reason the GOP keeps winning and the democrats keep losing, is because the former has mastered this concept and the latter hasn’t even tried to

David Sacks, who warned of an impending World War III every single month of the Biden presidency leading up to the 2024 election, has not commented on the ongoing war with Iran.

@gofishchris yes, internal link flow is key but subfolder structure does impact crawling (especially for news sites) via developers.google.com/search/docs/fu…

Technical SEO Tip: Google DOES NOT use your URL structure to determine your site hierarchy. This is a common misconception in SEO:

Rich video result linking to a pirated copy of a movie still in theaters, hosted on a hacked EDU site, ranking for the movie name is 🤌

ebay seller listing 8x10 prints of genAI art as 'professional photos', mostly nudes 25k+ products, 150k+ sold @ ~$3.50 a pop what a world

@rebekah_creates you can try httpstatus.io (and change user-agent at bottom right) or you can adjust your browser user-agent via network conditions: developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/…

@olegko What would you recommend using to view as Googlebot? I tried one extension I found in an article describing how to do this, but I don't think the features of the extension allow for this anymore.

Hey technical SEO friends — I am dealing with a client issue that I need help with. Would love anyone's help willing to offer it! One of our client sites is having an issue with a couple of URLs getting indexed as spam sites/redirected pages advertising a drug that starts with V and rhymes with Niagara. We've checked everything I am familiar with for where this could be coming from, and I can't reproduce the issue when actually looking at the live URL. However, it's been happening on the top 2 pages on their site, which means their site traffic is dropping significantly because Google keeps crawling it using that "redirect." (I'm using quote marks because I don't understand at all what's *actually* happening, and I'm not sure how a redirect would get turned on and off constantly.) For context, this site also had some sort of spam/malware attack on its Meta pixel that seems somehow related. However, to our knowledge, that has been resolved. The dev has run reports to search for malware on the site to no avail. There are no redirects on the URL from the places we add redirects. I found it once by mistake, and I have resubmitted to GSC 4 times for the first page it happened to, but every time it gets re-indexed, it shows up in GSC as this stupid spam page. I am open to any and all suggestions for what to look for and what might be happening!

Have a broken favicon in SERPs? Check the file format -- webp isn't compatible (yet), & some CDNs auto-convert images to webp Also, per docs, make sure favicon dimensions are a multiple of 48x48 (96x96px, 144x144px, etc) [this didn't fix the issue though] h/t @carlos_darko

Sites impacted by the HCU rn

@rebekah_creates any differences in the backlink profiles?

Sadly, this is the nail in the coffin for my other major HCU client loss (who also left in April for another agency). It's very interesting, because other than the fact that the site with gains runs ads and that this one does not, we used almost identical strategies (and the clients were very similar in industry, etc.).

It kind of sucks to share knowing this client left us in April and is unlikely to ever come back, but... here is my first HCU recovery. And yes, I'm claiming this one. The recovery is on exclusively the blog posts that we created that have not been edited or updated since they went with a new agency. The local pages (which the new agency has been working on) are down by 46% since the update started (although that's like 40 > 20 clicks, so not really a significant piece of data). It's too little, too late in terms of me losing one of my favorite clients... but I'm happy to see it's possible!

@TalebKabbara @mihir23192 more sites are using CDNs, which trigger 429s when they detect non-safelisted crawler-like activity solution is to ask ENG to safelist your IP/user-agent, or slow down your crawl rate

@mihir23192 Crawl Error 429 (too many requests) is common as i’ve seen lately

For most of the websites, the technical SEO issues could be identified, communicated, and solved using this simple workflow. I've oversimplified it, and you could make small detours based on the nuances of your website. What more would you like to add here?

Judge Mehta's recent trial findings have given us an unprecedented view into the inner workings of modern search engines, particularly Google. Inside view: How Google Works 🔎 A THREAD

@BrandenHarvey @bethmorgan @BingWMC @facan hey hey, I did indeed get it approved (shout out to @facan for the assist as it was definitely stuck) imo, didn't see any big changes in 'regular' organic traffic, but does seem to have increased the number of traffic spikes when a story 'hits' their surfaces very hard to track

@olegko @bethmorgan @BingWMC @facan Oleg, I just found this tweet because I was searching for other publishers talking about PubHub. Glad to see you here! Curious, did you ever get approved? I just got approved after almost 2 years of being on the waitlist. Curious to see what will happen next.

@madewithlove howdy! your htaccess tester is giving a 500 error: htaccess.madewithlove.com

@facan when a site is rejected from PubHub, the message says to 'resolve the issues in the email', but no email is ever sent, and no notifications appear in BWT. Anything else that I can do/check to understand the issue before resubmitting?

@thinking_slow agreed, game changer I just set this up a month ago with Smart Connections plugin (which can connect with several external LLM models) Feel much more confident in the outputs when I'm responsible for the inputs Going to check out copilot since it has llama.. is it multimodal?

finally got around to setting up a local LLM that I can access directly within my note-taking app! super fun, super nerdy, thought i'd share some links for anyone interested (it took literally 10 minutes to set up): - obsidian.md - ollama.com - github.com/logancyang/obs… (easiest to download via the "community plugins" menu in Obsidian)

@tomzur already seeing referral traffic (and a paying conversion!) from search.chatgpt.com

"OpenAI is ‘going to build a search product’ The Atlantic confirms it has granted permission for its content to be included in OpenAI's search product."

@dan_shure I've been doing this manually for a few months now but manually -- will have to check out this plugin cause I was about to build my own haha its been a huuuuuge time saver for webinar recordings, which includes timestamp links to jump to specific sections I'm most interested in

Very useful little feature in Keywords Everywhere - pulls the YouTube transcription and plugins it into AI with a prompt to generate a summary of the content in the video.

@JoelKlettke their browser extension works across any site too!

This is an abomination.

Anyone else seeing odd GA4 real-time spikes every 5 minutes? Seeing this pattern across multiple different websites... related to UA going away?

@jeremarketer The amount of times I've been informed that [me/company] have been 'shortlisted' for a 'prestigious, internationally recognized magazine' industry list is absurd I will say... the lists are good source of people who will gladly pay $1k-$3k for an ego boost 😉

Never pay for a paid placement like this. Super sketchy. Ewww.